Blending the worlds of hardware, games and creators in gaming PCs | Jo Tan interview

The PC has always been everything to everybody. HP is very focused on selling AI PCs, as evidenced by its lineup in January at the CES 2025 tech trade show in Las Vegas. And yet the PC is also the platform of choice for content creators and gamers. Players are crossing lines from just being passively entertained to creating their own custom games with the help of AI. Blending all the necessary tools together to make software work seamlessly is one of the things that computer makers like HP have to do. And the company is going to be busy this year. It showed off designs for a bunch of laptops, workstations and desktops at CES, and now it’s starting to deliver machines with a set of graphics card refreshes that starting launching this week. I caught up with Jo Tan, senior vice president of gaming solutions at HP, recently to talk about the business of gaming PCs and how technologies, markets and games are all coming together in the AI era. Tan said HP’s strategy with gaming PCs is to ... Read full article.